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A Revelation From God: The Real Killers of Under the Banner of Heaven
renda Wright Lafferty and her 15-month-old daughter, Erica, were murdered in their American Fork, Utah home in July 1984, and the homicide investigation led straight to her brothers-in-law, Ron and Dan Lafferty. This is the true crime case behind Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven, rooted in Mormon fundamentalism and a so-called removal revelation that sent 2 brothers to trial.Brenda was a campus TV anchor and a brand-new mom, and she was the one person in the Lafferty family who told 2 self-declared prophets exactly what she thought of them. This story starts in a barber's chair in Payson, Utah, and before it's over, there's a yellow legal pad with 4 names on it and a buffet line in Reno that makes no sense at all. It's about a family that followed its most intense brother off a cliff, and about Brenda, who refused to follow.
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renda Wright Lafferty and her 15-month-old daughter, Erica, were murdered in their American Fork, Utah home in July 1984, and the homicide investigation led straight to her brothers-in-law, Ron and Dan Lafferty. This is the true crime case behind Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven, rooted in Mormon fundamentalism and a so-called removal revelation that sent 2 brothers to trial.Brenda was a campus TV anchor and a brand-new mom, and she was the one person in the Lafferty family who told 2 self-declared prophets exactly what she thought of them. This story starts in a barber's chair in Payson, Utah, and before it's over, there's a yellow legal pad with 4 names on it and a buffet line in Reno that makes no sense at all. It's about a family that followed its most intense brother off a cliff, and about Brenda, who refused to follow.
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